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[Robert Cruickshank <robcruic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I first got into stereo when I was about 16 or 17, making anaglyph cha-cha 
slides that were really bad...I wanted to project them with polarizers but
I couldn't make them work- I knew the white screen was scattering the
light, but I didn't know what to do about it.  I didn't have any
references, all I knew about stereo was: 1) The astronauts made cha-cha
pictures on the moon with Hasselblads (there was a discussion on the list
about whether or not this was true , but for me at the time it was a
fact, and I owe my interest in stereo to my belief in it)
2) I had seen a few 3d films, in anaglph.

I abandoned this, mostly because I couldn't get the polarizers to work,
and sort of forgot about it, though somewhere on the way, I got a copy of
Amazing 3D. (I'm not sure why having that book didn't make me run right
out and get a Realist, but it didn't)

A few years ago, I started making Cha-Cha pictures again, and made some
crude viewers, as well as scanning the pictures and making anaglyphs
again. About this time, I started climbing mountains and wanted to take
pictures that really conveyed the feel of where i was. 

Also, I had been collecting postcards, but had started bying stereo
cards when the prices of postcards wen't higher than I felt like paying.
Stereo crds are afraction of the price of most real photo post cards, and
way way cooler.

I was discussing this with my girlfriends brother, who's a professional
fotographer, and he told me about an uncle who had a stereo camera in the
50's, and that their mother had some pictures. A few months later, I got
to see said pictures, in a Red Button viewer, and I was completely blown
away. That's when the bug really hit, that was two years ago, I'm 34 now,
and I'm hooked for forever.
 
It's interesting how many little pieces fell into place at the same time-
it was as if a little clock went off saying "Now is the time..."







Rob Cruickshank      Toronto, Canada 
www.interlog.com/~robcruic
                



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